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An Afghan personal name consists of a given name (Dari: نام, Pashto: نوم) and sometimes a surname at the end. Personal names are generally not divided into first and family names; a single name is recognized as a full personal name, and the addition of further components – such as additional given names, regional, or ethnic family/clan names or patronymics – is often a matter of ...
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Abdul Ghani Khan (Pakistan) – Pashto poet, writer, philosopher, and artist [6] Ameer Hamza Shinwari (Pakistan/Afghanistan) - Pashto Poet, Writer ,philosopher etc; Sardar Ali Takkar (Pakistan/Afghanistan) – popular sufist Pashto singer. Rahim Shah (Pakistan) – popular Pashto and Urdu singer; Khyal Muhammad (Pakistan) – prominent Pashto ...
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[64] [60] While speakers of Pashto in the country number only 21,677 as of 2011, estimates of the ethnic or ancestral Pashtun population in India range from 3,200,000 [5] [6] [65] to 11,482,000, [66] to as high as double their population in Afghanistan (approximately 30 million).
Pakistani surnames are divided into three categories: Islamic naming convention, cultural names and ancestral names. In Pakistan a person is either referred by his or her Islamic name or from tribe name (if it is specified), respectively.
Pashtun diaspora (Pashto: بهر مېشت پښتانه) comprises all ethnic Pashtuns. There are millions of Pashtuns who are living outside of their traditional homeland of Pashtunistan , a historic region that is today situated over parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan . [ 12 ]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Pashto-language writers (2 C, 14 P) S. Pashtun Sufis (1 C, 11 P) T. Pashtun tribes (7 C ...